{"id":227392,"date":"2021-02-20T13:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2021\/02\/20\/air-passenger-close-to-pre-covid-levels-minister\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T13:18:20","slug":"air-passenger-close-to-pre-covid-levels-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/02\/20\/air-passenger-close-to-pre-covid-levels-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Air passenger close to pre-Covid levels: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday said that the country&rsquo;s air passenger traffic is &ldquo;within touching distance of pre-Covid numbers&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, the minister said: &ldquo;2,90,518 passengers on 2,360 flights on 19 Feb is within touching distance of Pre-COVID numbers &amp; marks revival of the domestic sector.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;From transporting essential &amp; medical supplies, to movement of vaccines, civil aviation sector plays a key role in efforts against COVID19.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Since the resumption of operations on May 25, domestic air traffic continued to sequentially improve in January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The domestic passenger traffic rose 5.55 per cent sequentially in January to 77.34 lakh passengers from 73.27 lakh reported for December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>However, on a year-on-year basis the January numbers stood 39.50 per cent lower than 127.83 lakh reported for the corresponding period of the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>At present, airlines can operate up to 80 per cent of their pre-Covid capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air passenger close to pre-Covid levels: Minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}